I know some of you will have seen this image already but I thought it was worth posting for those who haven’t.

This amazing image of Great Britain under it’s icy topping was captured by NASA (Satellite Terra) yesterday.  I don’t think  (in living memory) I can’t recall a time when Britain has been completely covered by snow and ice before.

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17 Comments CherryPie on Jan 9th 2010

17 Responses to “Great Britain Under Ice”

  1. jpt says:

    And quite nice it is too!

  2. jameshigham says:

    Isn’t it fabulous?

  3. Claudia says:

    I said, elsewhere, it looks like the ice cap I saw from a plane flying over Baffin Island, in our Canadian Arctic. You must be cold. Dress warm, in many layers. Never mind the bulk! Some rum also helps…:)

    • CherryPie says:

      I think the central heating and double glazing means my body temperature is quite high so as long as I wrap up warm it takes quite a while for me to get cold outside.

      I do remember how different it was when I didn’t have a warm cosy house though…

  4. A depressing view for someone like me who hates snow!

  5. jameshigham says:

    Still looks great this morning.

  6. jameshigham says:

    We’ve had our lot.

  7. CherryPie says:

    By way of an update. It snowed overnight so I woke up to a coating of snow and it was snowing just a little on my way into work. Someone had done a very bad job of clearing the car park at work and there are great ridges of snow to be negotiated and parts not cleared at all…

  8. liz says:

    And if you look at gower, you’ll see it’s one of the less white places. Typical, we get the cold but not the fun!

  9. CherryPie says:

    I am in one of the less white places too. I was so hoping to get snowed in for the day!

  10. That’ll be all the global warming, said Spidey with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek.